squalid
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source: Couple kept their three children in squalid 'hell hole' - Telegraph
/icons/point.icon DIRTY, FILTHY, FOUL, NASTY, SQUALID mean conspicuously unclean or impure.
DIRTY emphasizes the presence of dirt more than an emotional reaction to it.
e.g. a dirty littered street
FILTHY carries a strong suggestion of offensiveness and typically of gradually accumulated dirt that begrimes and besmears.
e.g. a stained greasy floor, utterly filthy
FOUL implies extreme offensiveness and an accumulation of what is rotten or stinking.
e.g. a foul-smelling open sewer
NASTY applies to what is actually foul or is repugnant to one expecting freshness, cleanliness, or sweetness.
e.g. it's a nasty job to clean up after a sick cat In practice, nasty is often weakened to the point of being no more than a synonym of unpleasant or disagreeable.
e.g. had a nasty fall his answer gave her a nasty shock
SQUALID adds to the idea of dirtiness and filth that of slovenly neglect.
e.g. squalid slums All these terms are also applicable to moral uncleanness or baseness or obscenity.
DIRTY then stresses meanness or despicableness don't ask me to do your dirty work , while FILTHY and FOUL describe disgusting obscenity or loathsome behavior filthy street language a foul story of lust and greed , and NASTY implies a peculiarly offensive unpleasantness. a stand-up comedian known for nasty humor Distinctively, SQUALID implies sordidness as well as baseness and dirtiness. engaged in a series of squalid affairs
adjective
(of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect:
汚い, 不潔な; むさ苦しい.
e.g. the squalid, overcrowded prison.
showing or involving a contemptible lack of moral standards:
卑しい, 下劣な
e.g. a squalid attempt to save themselves from electoral embarrassment.
DERIVATIVES
squalidly adverb
squalidity noun
squalidness noun
ORIGIN
late 16th century: from Latin squalidus, from squalere ‘be rough or dirty’.